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HUNTING PRELIMINARIES. 



provided with a quilted lining. Many people think that 

 Russian leather makes the best lining for this purpose. 



A hunting tie or hunting stock is a combination of collar 

 and tie. The centre of the stock is placed on the front of 

 the neck, the ends are passed in opposite directions round 

 the back of the neck, brought in front, tied in a reef knot, 

 crossed in front of this knot, and finally secured, as a rule, by 

 means of a pin or brooch, of the safety, horse-shoe or fox 

 pattern. A gold safety pin is often used. A brooch pin is 



Fig. 232. Posts and rails, about 3 ft. 9 in. high. 



naturally safer than an ordinary pin. Nowadays, hunting ties 

 are nearly always made of white cotton material. Long ago 

 in Ireland, I often saw fogies of blue bird's-eye on a white 

 ground,- in the hunting field. They were worn in the Shires 

 until about 1885, and also blue with white spots. 



A hunting waistcoat is usually of some fancy woollen 

 material. It is long in the waist, single breasted, it buttons 

 rather high up, and its pockets, as a rule, are provided with 

 flaps. 



